Love it to Death Daphne Guinness

Showcasing latest collaboration with renowned british jeweler, Shaun Leane who created dramatic baubles for the late Alexander McQueen runway shows and daphne Guinness was displayed as a couture corpse decked in gems atop a lucite box, as though she were levitating and surrounded by white candles. All taking place at the lavish townhouse belonging to Jay Jopling. Daphne was veiled while adorning one piece Alexander McQueen bodysuit. Showing off one of a kind gold and diamond glove, created using 5,000 pave white diamonds to create a flock of birds and branches on glove. Leana went on to say this was just the beginning of an ongoing collaboration between the duo and what made it even more special was that they started it when Isabella  Blow was still alive. And then Lee [Alexander McQueen] was so inspired by it, he even wanted to make a dress for it.

Mannequin Lusting* MD Studio

I was recently on the search for very unique bust and forms to shoot a few items for my website. I played with the idea, of spray painting forms, to handpainting, to calligraphic writing. Nothing really stuck out for me, and everything seemed to already have been utilized.

I came across this phenomenal company MD Studio that offered mannequins that were everything I was looking for but, could out a grasp around. These were high style and hardcore which isn't always an easy fete however this particular site managed to be edgy, modern, and sleek. Though I couldn't use these forms for my immediate project, you will definitely see them in projects to come.

MD STUDIO was established in January 1987 as a direct result of many years of experience in visual presentation and exhibition design. 
Specialised in designing and realisation of exhibition elements and mannequins. 
Being closely involved in fashion and design concepts MD STUDIO chooses different materials for the realisation of its own productline. 
Extreme care in the development of handmade products, based on constant design care, identifies MD STUDIO and makes it a promotor and creator of trends.
The future of company points clearly to creative projects, studying new technological resources and using innovative materials in syntony with evolutionary projects and the world of fashion demands with the precise goal: To plan and accomplish only real exclusive products.

Art Event In Southampton / July 9

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If eyes are the window to the soul, seeing through such an imaginative visionary such as Vogue Paris editor 

 Emmanuelle Alt's enchants your entire being and in June's issue ignites a passionate Latin American-esk fire with pops of color that beg to be set a blaze.

                

Model: Isabeli Fontana

Photography: Mert & Marcus

Fashion editor: Emmanuelle Alt

Photos from: Vogue Paris June 2011

Mega Bootie

Haus of Price MEGA BOOTIE

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Let's just take a moment shall we for the glory of this to sink in... *prolonged pause* I MEAN ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! Meet the MEGA BOOTIE. A custom-made, brand new creation from HAUS OF PRICE that James Price himself made EXCLUSIVELY for us at Solestruck. You won't be able to get this gem-encrusted wedge bootie anywhere but here. We are offering an exclusive pre-sale of the MEGA BOOTIE for all you fans of this one of a kind brand known for turning fantasy in to reality. 5" heel and 1 1/2" platform. Fits true to size. Size US8 insole measures 9 5/8" or 24.5 cm. Each half size is 1/4" or .5cm difference. Limit 3 per customer.

A Haus of Price original.
Women's shoe. Imported.

Currently sold-out on Solestruck.com 

"Yes Bitch We Did It" -CFDA Awards 2011

One of the big winners of the evening, Lady Gaga's response to a text message from The Anna Wintour informing her of the good news that she'd won the CFDA Fashion Icon Award. She among others such as Alexander Wang who was awarded Accessory Designer of the Year, Creative Director of Celine Phoebe Philo, International Award and Marc Jacobs accepted the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award, re-named the "Half-Lifetime Achievement Award."
My favorite award of the evening, the Media Award, received by the fashion director of Telegraph, Hilary Alexander. She accepted the award in honor of the entire British fashion industry and British fashion journalism. Paper magazine Editorial Director Mickey Boardman told HuffPost, "Hilary has such personality, she has such personal style and when someone has been involved in fashion as long as she has and they have such a point of view, it's hard to lose somebody like that. It takes a lifetime to build up that kind of knowledge and that kind of point of view. Plus, she's just fun, although I wish she would quit smoking because it's just bad for her ... You know, she's a real writer, she's not someone who's like, 'Oh, I love fashion, oh, I want to get into the Alexander Wang sample sale.' She goes to all of the shows. She writes about designers who aren't necessarily 'the hot designer,' but she writes about what she thinks should be written about. So she's a real journalist. She's not just a fashion journalist, she's a journalist."
Inspired much?

My fans, some of them don't know who they are and they have so much trouble. They come to the Monster Ball to find who they are and they wake up in the morning and it's that leather jacket that makes them feel like they can be anyone. Or it's that YSL blazer that they saw in the window that makes them feel like they could be president one day. Fashion means so much to them. It's really hard to talk about ... I always felt like I had made it before I had made it because of all of you, because it was all of you that made me feel like I was a star."

-LADY GAGA